Agglomeration and regional unemployment disparities a theoretical analysis with reference to the European Union
In the European Union, unemployment rates differ markedly across regions, both within and across nations. This study presents a coherent theoretical approach to explain the emergence and persistence of such regional unemployment disparities. The analysis builds on the wage curve literature, and on r...
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Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group
2018
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| Edition: | First edition |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Forewords
- Table of contents
- List of tables, figures and maps
- Introduction
- A) Spatial economic disparities within the European Union: The evidence
- A1) Preface: Level of spatial disaggregation and the choice of territorial units
- A2) Gross domestic product (GDP)
- A2.1.) GDP of European NUTS II-regions, 1999
- A2.2.) Regional convergence versus divergence in Europe
- A3) Regional unemployment in Europe
- A3.1.) Unemployment rates in NUTS2-regions, 2000
- A3.2.) Convergence versus divergence of regional unemployment rates
- A4) Other regional indicators
- A4.1.) Employment Growth
- A4.2.) Population Density, Population Changes and Migration
- A4.3.) Education
- A4.4.) Innovation and research activities
- A5) A closer look at the West German Länder
- A6) Summing up the evidence
- B) Macroeconomic theories of unemployment and the "European labour market model"
- B1) Introduction
- B2) A brief historical overview about macroeconomics
- B2.1.) The 'classics'
- B2.2.) Keynes and the neoclassical synthesis
- B2.3.) Friedman and the 'natural rate of unemployment'
- B2.4.) 'New classical macroeconomics' and rational expectations
- B2.5.) The Keynesian response
- B3) The "European labour market model (ELMM)"
- B3.1.) Why is there insider power in the labour market
- B3.2.) The aggregate wage setting curve
- B3.3.) The aggregate price setting curve
- B3.4.) Equilibrium in the ELMM
- B3.5.) Some further issues of the ELMM
- C) The wage curve
- C1) Introduction
- C2) The wage curve as an empirical regularity
- C3) Wage curve theory: The Blanchflower/Oswald-model
- C3.1.) The partial equilibrium foundation of the wage curve
- C3.2.) General equilibrium in the Blanchflower/Oswald-model
- C3.3.) Critique of the Blanchflower/Oswald-model
- C4) The model of Blien (2001).
- C4.1.) Partial labour market equilibrium in the Blien-model
- C4.2.) The product market and general equilibrium in the Blien-model
- C4.3.) Critique of the Blien-model
- C5) Conclusion on wage curve theory and motivation for an own approach
- D) Regional agglomeration theory and 'new economic geography'
- D1) Introduction
- D2) Scale economies, externalities, and market competition
- D3) The Marshallian agglomeration economies
- D4) Centrifugal forces and other location factors
- D5) The core-periphery model of 'new economic geography'
- D5.1.) Consumer behaviour
- D5.2.) Production
- D5.3.) Equilibrium conditions
- D5.4.) Sustainability
- D5.5.) Stability
- D5.6.) 'New economic geography' and the new trade theory
- D6) Other 'new economic geography'-models
- D6.1.) Venables (1996) and Krugman/Venables (1995)
- D6.2.) Housing scarcity: Helpman (1998)
- D6.3.) Analytically tractable models
- D6.4.) More sectors, more regions
- D6.5.) Dynamic models
- D6.6.) Empirics, politics, and other unsettled issues
- D7) Regional costs-of-living: An extension of the Krugman-model
- D7.1.) Regional costs-of-living: the evidence
- D7.2.) The basic structure of the extended model
- D7.3.) Sustainability and stability
- D7.4.) Conclusion of our approach
- Appendix
- E) Regional agglomeration and regional unemployment
- E1) Introduction
- E2) The existing literature
- E2.1.) The model of Matusz (1996)
- E2.2.) The model of Peeters/Garretsen (2000)
- E3) Regional agglomeration and the wage curve: The model
- E3.1.) The closed-economy setting
- E3.2.) The two-region case with imperfect trade
- E3.3.) The impact of labour mobility
- E4) Critical discussion of our model approach
- E4.1.) Discussion of the model from a theoretical point of view
- E4.2.) Discussion of the model from an empirical point of view
- E5) Further issues.
- F) Internal migration and regional disparities
- F1) Introduction
- F2) The causes of internal migration
- F3) The consequences of internal migration: The neoclassical view
- F4) Internal migration and regional divergence: alternative views
- F4.1.) Increasing returns to scale
- F4.2.) Selective labour migration
- F5) Selective migration in a two-region model
- F5.1.) The full-employment case
- F5.2.) Union wage setting and unskilled unemployment
- F5.3.) Conclusion of the model with constant returns to scale
- F6) Agglomeration, worker heterogeneity and national union wage setting
- F6.1.) The full employment case
- F6.2.) The case with unemployment
- F7) Discussion of the theoretical models and their empirical relevance
- F7.1.) Discussion from a theoretical point of view
- F7.2.) Discussion from an empirical point of view
- Concluding remarks
- List of references.
